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Conference Videos
Major panel sessions
Symposia
Opening and Closing Session
Opening session
Opening session
Synthesis & closing session
Keynotes
Keynotes
John Kamanga
A community governance perspective
Jonny Keeling
A documentary perspective
David Macdonald
A natural sciences perspective
Mariano Castro Jimenez
A policy perspective
Brian McQuinn
A peacebuilding perspective
Ganesh Ramani
A donor perspective
Ivonne Higuero
A resource economics perspective
Barbara Chesire
A social enterprise perspective
Gabriela Lichtenstein
A species perspective
Major Panel Sessions
EU Carnivores
What future for large carnivores in Europe?
The role of policies in mitigating human-wildlife conflict
The new IUCN SSC Guidelines on HWC
Next steps for HWC in the Global Biodiversity Framework
Resource mobilisation for HWC
Collaborating for coexistence across Latin America
The future of elephants and people in Africa and Asia
Policies
Guidelines
GBF
Resources
LatinAmerica
Elephants
Symposia
Working with stakeholders
Amal Dissanayaka
The changing role from defenders to challengers
Isla Hodgson
Thinking like a Local: an ethnographic approach to understanding conflicts
Katrina Marsden
Exchange between multi-level stakeholder platforms focusing on conflict species: learning from the EU Large Carnivore Platform experience
Bill Hunt
Managing grizzly bears and other large carnivores in Banff National Park - creating a toolkit for transboundary cooperation
Susan Canney
Managing HWC in the Sahel of central Mali: the Mali Elephant Project
Kai Williams
Changing the narrative: how wildlife rehabilitators help manage human-wildlife interactions
stakeholders
Understanding human dimensions and behaviour
Ruth Kansky
Factors driving tolerance of people towards damage causing mammalian wildlife – global case studies using the Wildlife Tolerance Model
Sayan Banerjee
'En-gendering’ human-wildlife conflict and implications to conservation
Nuno Miguel Negroes
Jaguar persecution without “cowflict”: insights from protected territories in the Bolivian Amazon
Human dimensions
Livelihoods and alternative sources of income
Graham McCulloch
Shifting the cost-benefit imbalance among communities living with elephants
Jane Horgan
Conservation challenges and opportunities to sustain wildlife biodiversity in the western Kalahari of Botswana
Craig Packer
Pastoralism in transition
Aletris Neils
How global markets inadvertently increased persecution of Namibian carnivores?
Livelihoods
Understanding governance and HWC
Andreas Kranz
Current Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) management in Austria
Arndt Feuerbacher
The potential of national HWC mitigation policies: the economy-wide effects of a large-scale electric fencing intervention in Bhutan
Steve Michel
A national strategy for human-wildlife coexistence in Canada's national parks
Michael 't Sas Rolfes
Mitigating HWC caused by institutional mismatch: addressing value conflicts in international wildlife trade policy
Richard Hoare
Principle lessons from 25 years of human-elephant conflict mitigation in Africa
Maria Semitiel-Garcia
Evaluation of the efficiency of governance in socio-ecological systems
Governance
Landscapes, spatial planning and connectivity
Anna Songhurst
Land use planning at the community-elephant interface
Leonard Usongo
Insecurity and challenges managing HWCs: the case of Waza National Park
Wong Ee Phin
Building a pathway to coexistence: wild elephant conservation and agriculture industry
Tal Polak
Managing cross-border human-wildlife conflicts under stressed geo-political conditions
Karoline Hemminger
Thinking beyond the nature reserve: how the world´s crane species interact with agriculture and what can be done to facilitate coexistence
Landscapes
Financial incentives and instruments
Ashok Subedi
Human-snow leopard conflict: existing scenario and management experience of Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal
Ingela Jansson
Coexistence in crowded landscapes – challenges and opportunities for human-lion coexistence in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
Robyn Appleton
An applied conservation model for managing human-wildlife conflict affecting spectacled bears in northern Peru
Ezequiel Infantino
Wildlife-friendly livestock production helps conserve native wildlife and protect core habitats in the Chaco and Patagonia
Financial
Conflict resolution and transformation
Nuria Alonso Leal
Campo Grande Group: a dialogue platform for coexistence in Spain
Deborah Cox
“Where are the pigs?” Towards an integrated approach of wild boar management in multi-use landscapes
Juliette Young
Listening for understanding: mapping stakeholders positions in areas with conflicts over large carnivores
Jeremy Cusack
Measuring the intensity of conflicts in conservation
Yorck von Korff
New approaches that help social systems better understand themselves in the context of environmental mediation and natural resources management
Resolution
Conceptual frameworks for HWC implementation
Chihiro Takahata
Key landscape features and factors of large carnivore occurrence in human-disturbed lands: A review and conceptual framework for spatial coexistence
Christian Lippert
Analytical framework to assess the profitability of fencing versus crop guarding strategies when hunting of crop-raiding herbivores is restricted
Eva Matsiko & Stacey Oliver
Applying the best-fit instruments to mitigate complex issues in HWC
Adam Grogan
International consensus principles for ethical wildlife control
Gladman Thondhlana
Non-material costs of wildlife conservation to local people and implications for conservation interventions
Frameworks
Behaviour change in HWC
Diogo Verissimo
The Elephant Queen: can a nature documentary help mitigate human-elephant conflict?
Ewan Macdonald
Behaviour change in human-wildlife conflict: what can conservation learn from marketing?
Maureen W Kinyanjui
Improving the sustainability of human-elephant coexistence in the face of rapid social-ecological changes
Rebecca Sargent
Trialling an experimental game to examine pastoralists' preferences for human-lion coexistence strategies
Laura Perry
How to integrate behaviour change and social psychology into applied conservation practice
Behaviour
Culture and traditional knowledge
Sahil Nijhawan
Contested tigers, borderlands and 'development' in Northeast India
Kathryn Nelson
Culture and attitudes: building bridges to mitigate human-wildlife conflict
Saloni Bhatia
Examining values associated with large mammals in Trans-Himalayan folklore
Mariana Labao Catapani
Understanding superstitious beliefs about wildlife: the case of the giant anteater in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul
Ashleigh Lutz-Nelson
Mobilizing traditional indigenous knowledge and practitioners for snow leopard conservation
Culture
A focus on carnivores
Chloe Lucas
Evaluating human-carnivore coexistence using a multi-stakeholder socio-ecological approach
Andrew Stein
Lions at the gates: trans-disciplinary design of an early warning system to improve human-lion coexistence
Andy Lee
New technologies to proactively prevent human-wildlife conflict
Iain Trewby
Learning lessons on facilitating coexistence with large carnivores in Romania’s South-Western Carpathians
Vincent van der Merwe
When does fencing and metapopulation management become necessary for the conservation of wild Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) populations?
Melissa Arias
Interplay between illegal jaguar trade and human-jaguar conflict in Bolivia
Carnivores
A focus on elephants
Lucy King
Introducing a new HEC Toolbox Book to enhance human-elephant coexistence
Eva Gross
Does guarding reduce crop losses due to wildlife? A comparative analysis from Africa and Asia
R Lynn Von Hagen
The path to coexistence: lessons from human elephant conflict research and community engagement in the Kasigau Wildlife Corridor (KWC), Kenya
Ganesh Raghunathan
Storm in a teacup: pro-active management strategies to mitigate human-elephant conflict in the Anamalais, south India
Mayukh Chatterjee
Mitigating human-elephant conflicts through long term community integration approaches in Assam India - the Assam Haathi Project
Loki Osborn
Testing ‘Disruptive Darting’ on elephants habituated to human activities in order to reduce lethal control in the KAZA landscape
Elephants
A focus on reptiles
Gnaneswar Ch
Conservationists need to acknowledge snakebite as a human-wildlife conflict
Sumanth Bindumadhav
Wholistic approach to human-snake conflict resolution
Ardiantiono
Combining attack hotspots and media reporting to inform high-risk areas of human-crocodile conflict
Simon Pooley
Crocodiles conflict, compassion and coexistence
Reptiles
Hotspots and risk mapping of HWCs
Giulia Bombieri
Large carnivore attacks on humans: what are the main scenarios and how could we avoid them?
Lydia Tiller
Using elephant tracking data to understand human-elephant interactions in Kenya
Carlos Bautista
Multiscale approach to model the risk of predation of a very small livestock: beehives and brown bears in North-East Carpathians
Mauro Lucherini
Addressing puma-livestock conflicts across the Americas
Hotspots
Communities, partnerships and coexistence
Angelique Todd
Transformation of agricultural practices and livelihoods towards resolving human-wildlife conflict in Guinea and Uganda
Ian Temby
Cockatoo college: learning from corellas
Snowy Baptista
Conflict to coexistence: learning to live with leopards in Mumbai city
Samara P. El Haddad
Assessing effectiveness of wildlife rescue initiatives in Lebanon
Santiago Zuluaga
Top-down local management, perceived contribution to people, and actual detriments influence a rampant human‒top predator conflict in the Neotropics
Communities
Barriers, repellents, deterrents and other damage control methods
Eric G. LeFlore
Human dimensions of human-lion conflict in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Wijeyamohan Shanmugasundaram
Success of vertically hanging electric fence to mitigate HEC
Giovanna Massei
The other side of human-wildlife conflicts: a global perspective on fertility control to manage overabundant wildlife
Ujjal Kumar Sarma
Voluntary relocation as a counter-intuitive approach to mitigating HWC in protected areas: ‘Lifeworld’ experiences from Satpura Tiger Reserve, India
Aida Ghani Quilter
Evidence-based policy and protocols for Human-elephant conflicts (HEC): lesson learnt from the world’s largest producer of Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO)
Sarah L. Jacobson
Using a behavioral and cognitive perspective to shift human-elephant conflict to coexistence in Thailand
Bhaskar Choudhury
Effects of socio-ecological attributes on human-large carnivore conflict resolution outcomes – an analysis of cases in Assam, India
Damage
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